Law Practice Management

The Tennessee Bar Association has a variety of resources and practical information on law office management issues available to help members better serve clients and practice more efficiently and effectively.

Below you will find the Practice Management Advisor Pipes Feed, brought to you by the Law Office Technology & Management Section of the Tennessee Bar Association. "PMA Pipes" is an RSS newsfeed that was designed by the ABA's Legal Technology Resource Center. It combines posts from the blogs of Practice Management Advisors from across the United States, as well as the ABA's Site-tation blog, into one convenient location. The blogs brought to you by this feed include: Law Practice Matters, Reid My Blog, Law Practice Tips, Law Practice Advisor, The Last Word, Thoughtful Legal Management, and Compujurist, among others.

Practice Management Advisor Pipes Feed

On the heels of Heartbleed, more security concerns: Stop Using Internet Explorer Now By now you have likely heard about the security issues with Internet Explorer. However, you may not realize that the US government warned users to quit using … Continue reading →

Many legal professionals face the same challenges when it comes to technology: a certain piece of technology is failing or the firm is outdated in a specific area. What’s worse than your technology failing you? Getting lost in a bunch of vendor websites, or sifting through message boards and listserv archives, trying to figure out what purchases will benefit your firm the most. These issues wouldn’t seem as inconvenient if there was one centralized place to turn.
Now (finally), you have a...

Here is a great video and post with steps on how to protect yourself form the IE moonster affecting ALL versions of IE that has been making news this week. Steve Gibson created the inital steps but left out a few things. Terry Cole from Cole Informatics added these and created the video and post. If you're running Windows XP, you especially need to check this out. See here.

The rules for electronic filing deadlines in Oregon eCourt are set forth in UTCR 21.080, effective May 1, 2014. (See Chief Justice Order 14-012 dated March 31, 2014 adopting out-of-cycle amendments.) Among the most important are the provisions concerning rejected … Continue reading →

You start out making most of your money doing corporate law, have set up your law firm and practice management software around corporate law and have things running smoothly. A corporate client comes to you with an intellectual property issue, and asks for your advice. You don’t know much about intellectual property, but the client has given you steady business. What to do?
The simple answer is to call around to friends who are intellectual property lawyers, or know good intellectual property...

When Homeland Security issues a warning about new risks of using your computer, you should stop and pay attention. When mighty Microsoft tells you to temporarily stop using one of their programs due to a security issue, you should stop and pay attention once you’ve recovered from fainting.
Yes folks, our computing environment has just gotten a whole lot riskier, especially when exploring the internet.
First, let me advise you that the issues have not yet been resolved, despite reports issued...

[Avoid a Claim] Fraudster in the U.S. using LAWPRO job title as part of impersonation

A home renovation payments escrow company in Texas brought to our attention that a person purporting to be Laura Borovich of Orlando, Florida contacted them claiming to be “Director, practicePRO / Lawyers’ Professional Indemnity Company (LAWPRO)”. The purpose of the contact was to release money held in escrow. No employee by that name has ever worked at LAWPRO.
While the mailing address was given as Orlando, the phone number (858-504-7460) is in San Diego. Two email addresses...

[Oregon Law Practice Management] eCourt Notices: Forwarding is Up to You – Oregon eCourt Week

Transitioning to Oregon eCourt requires many adjustments – as evidenced by this week’s posts. Among the most significant: how law offices will process court notices for various events, including hearing dates, trial dates, or entry of judgments. eCourt Notices are … Continue reading →

Fifteen JDs and 15 MBAs are sitting in a room…
It sounds like the beginning of a bad joke, but it was actually an experiment conducted by my contracts professor when I was in law school.We were all given the same task to complete and 15 minutes to complete it. Go. The future lawyers spent the first five minutes asking questions about the rules.The future CEOs found a way to complete the task in 3 minutes, never asking a single question.
The MBAs looked at us and thought “what a bunch of...

This completely updated and expanded second edition of an ABA bestseller is designed to help managing partners, lawyers, and other legal professionals understand the role and responsibilities of a law firm’s managing partner. The book will shorten the learning curve for mastering successful management techniques for the new or experienced managing partner, through helpful guidelines, tips, and examples presented throughout the text. Of particular value is the author’s extensive...

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TBA Resource Center

Visit the Tennessee Bar Center at 221 Fourth Ave. North, Suite 400 in Nashville, and check out any of the many publications about law office management that are available. Obtain forms, checklists and information about how to set up your practice. Free to TBA members.